User:Jean-Guy Berrin

This is the user page of Jean-Guy Berrin. I started working on carbohydrate-active enzymes during my Master studies focusing on the characterization of a fungal GH11 xylanase from Aspergillus niger [1]. During my PhD held at the Institute of Food Research Norwich (UK) under the supervision of Nathalie Juge, I investigated the role of the human beta-glucosidase (GH1) in the metabolism of flavonoid glycosides through the study of its structure-activity relationships [2, 3]. After my PhD, I went back to France at the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) for a post doc on NADH oxidases followed by a post doc at Aix Marseille University on the characterization of fungal GH11 xylanases for food applications (see for example [4] and reviews [5, 6]). In 2008, I obtained a permanent research scientist position at INRA (Franch National Institute for Agricultural Research, Biotechnology of Filamentous Fungi group, Marseille, France). My main interest is to explore the enzymatic potential of the INRA collection of filamentous fungi (CIRM) to improve plant biomass deconstruction [7, 8]. A large number of genes have been targeted by computational genome analysis and secretomic approaches leading to the characterization of CAZymes from GH5, GH6, GH11, GH26, GH45, GH51, GH62 (see for example [9]). I also characterized the first member of the GH131 family [10]. More information at ResearchGate.